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G. R. MORRISON. FOLDING CLOTHES BRACKET.

Patented Apr. 1, 1890.

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GEORGE E. MORRISON, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOIIN O. ERTEL, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING CLOTHES BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,569, dated April 1, 1890.

Application filed October 5, 1889. Serial No. 326,100. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GEORGE R. MORRISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Olothes- Krackets, of which the following is a specification.-

My invention relates to an improved folding clothes-bracket.

The object of my Ill'll'HOVGlllGllt is to provide a bracket adapted to hang clothing upon, and to be attached to abedstead orother like place where it is desired that the bracket should be extended when in use and folded up out of thewa-y when not in use, as hereinafter fully described.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 represents an elevation showing my bracket secured to the rear side of the head-board of a bedstead and extended. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4: is a View like Fig. 1, the arm of the bracket being folded down. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 6 represents a section at a, Fig. 2, on a larger scale. Fig. 7 is a plan on ala-rgcr scale of one of the clothes-hooks.

The bracket consists of a base A, adapted to be secured by wood-scrcws to a plane surface, and having a projecting headed stud B and projecting stop (1, and a light arm D, having a slotted opening 6, adapted to slide and to turn 011 stud I and notch f, adapted to engage the stop O. Arm D is mortised transversely at intervals, as at It, and a series of hooks I, each having a reduced upwardlycurved portion j and shoulder is, are mounted in said mortises, the reduced portion j of the hook being passed through the arm and then slightly upset, so that it is free to turner slide in the mortise, but cannot fall out.

In operation base A having been secured to the head-board I, of a bedstead, and the notch f of the arm D engaged with the stop 0, the arm is held extended rigidly, so that it cannot swing up or down, and the hooks I stand out at right angles thereto, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the shoulders 75 of the hooks resting against the face of the arm and the front edge of the curved reduced port-ion resting against the back of the arm. On drawing arm D outward tillnotch f is disengaged from stop O, the arm swings downward on stud B, and the hooks on coming in contact with the edge of the head-board or post swing in their mortises into a position parallel with and transversely across the fiat sides of the arm, as in Figs. 4: and 5, and are prevented from falling out by the upsetting of their ends. In raising the arm from its folded position the hooks are again automatically extended at right angles to the arm by the force of gravitation, aided slightly by the sliding movement of the under edges of the hooks against the surface of the post.

I claim as my invention- In a clothes-bracket, the combination, with the base-plate A, having the stud Band stop 0, and a vertical surface, as a bed-post, to which said base is secured, of the arm I), having slot e, notohf, and a series of transverse mortises 7i and the series of hooks I, each having the reduced curved portion j, adapted to pass through the mortises h and to engage one side of the arm, and the shoulder 7.", adapted to engage the other side of the arm, all arranged to co-operate substantially as specified, whereby the hooks are automatically folded transversely across and parallel with the surface of the arm when the arm is lowered and automatically extended when the arm is raised, as set forth.

enonen R; MORRISON.

Witnesses:

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